Sarkozy vs Obama on The Burqa

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
June 22, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1825/sarkozy-vs-obama-on-the-burqa

Excerpt:

As far as I'm concerned, Frenchmen are back in vogue. Who could ever have predicted that the French president would stand up for women's universal rights and for freedom as a universal right — while the American president would hang back, wait, temporize? It's almost as if we've elected a Frenchman president of the United States — and an American-style president is ruling France.

Please contrast the following two speeches.

On June 22th, 2009, President Nicholas Sarkozy stated that he viewed the full-body burqa and niquab as a sign of the "debasement" of women and that it won't be welcome in France. According to the glorious Sarkozy:

"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity … The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly, it will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic."

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